Leah Ceccarelli, Professor, is a rhetorical critic and theorist. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary and public discourse about science. She also explores metacritical issues surrounding rhetorical inquiry as a mode of research. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American Public Address, Public Debate, Rhetorical Criticism, Classical Rhetoric, and Rhetoric of Science. She directs the UW Science, Technology, and Society Studies Graduate Certificate program. She serves on the editorial boards of Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Philosophy & Rhetoric, and is Co-Editor of Transdisciplinary Rhetoric (a book series sponsored by the Rhetoric Society of America and Penn State University Press).

Ceccarelli, L. On the Frontier of Science: An American Rhetoric of Exploration and Exploitation (Michigan State UP, 2013).[Winner of the National Communication Association Public Address Division’s Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for best book, 2014.]

Ceccarelli, L. (2007). “Creating Controversy about Science and Technology,” in Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, ed. Frans H. van Eemeren, et al. (Sic Sat), 231-34.

Ceccarelli, L. (2001) Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. [Winner of the Rhetoric Society of America Book Award, 2004.]

Ceccarelli, L. (2001) “Rhetorical Criticism and the Rhetoric of Science.” Western Journal of Communication, 65.3, 314-29.